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In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

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Some ancient marine organisms produced mysterious magnetic particles of unusually large size, which can now be found as fossils in marine sediments ...

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